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Weekly Challenge

This week's challenge comes from our awesome October Guest Designer, Kristina Werner!

This week we're challenging you to take a cue from Kristina and create a misted background on a layout.  Use masks, stencils, templates, or just mist itself... it's up to you to play!  Post a link here by Monday, October 17 for your chance to win a SC GC.  Have fun getting misty!

Challenge

Hello everyone! Céline here, coming up with a new challenge for you this week!

I played with Studio Calico new collection, Classic, for this very colorful layout. You might wonder "how come there's color as she's using the Classic collection, which is more Cream & Brown?"
The patterns and designs of this collection are just soooo great and easy to use, and the quality of the paper allows you to use Mr Huey mists and Jenni Bowlin dye inks. That's what I did!

  I simply added JBS inks on a craft sheet, some water and colored some pieces of paper : the designs remain visible but you got colors now!

Your challenge is : grab some cream/white patterned that you have and play with Mr Huey inks, JBS or Distress inks to add colors! Post your layout here by Monday, October 10 to win a GC. Have fun!

Hi everybody! So I was racking my brain trying to think of a challenge, and I looked at this photo of Nora and thought "Awww...she is such a pretty pink princess." And so then I decided to do a layout about it, and what better way to reinforce my title than to use pink and ONLY pink on my layout?? (I really used to hate the color pink, but after having 2 girls I've kind of had to learn to love it.)
Supplies: American Crafts cardstock, Autumn Press Rosebud paper, Autumn Press Preserves paper, Autumn Press Steamer Trunk paper, Autumn Press Fall Fashion Paper, Autumn Press Frolic Paper, Countryside Barn Swallow paper, Wood Veneer Alphabet, Addy Alpha - Pink, Sentiments Stamps (Addy Font), Countryside die-cut tags, State Fair die-cut tags, Countryside Label Stickers, State Fair Label Stickers, Mister Huey's Piglet, Tim Holtz Tony Attacher, American Crafts Precision Pen, Versamark stamp ink, Grapefruit Zing, American Crafts Mixtape, Martha Stewart buttons and rhinestones, misc. twine

This challenge was really difficult for me since I love to use color on my layouts and play with different color combinations, but I had a lot of fun with this. The new Autumn Press collection has a ton of pink in it too so that made it a little easier. I can't wait to see what kind of one color pages you guys can come up with!

Link up your layout here by Monday, October 3 for a chance to win a SC GC!  Have fun playing!

Weekly Challenge

Hi everyone! It's Geralyn and I'm excited to host my first challenge here at the SC blog. My challenge for you this week is to scrap some polaroid photos. There are lots of ways to do this...maybe you have a stack of Fuji Instax photos that are waiting to be scrapped. How about using a polaroid stamp? You can also create some faux polaroids by matting your photos onto white cardstock.

Here's the layout I came up with for this challenge. I love these photos of my sweet newborn nephew. I made some faux polaroids by cropping the photos into squares in Photoshop and leaving a white edge around the photos when I trimmed them.
Supplies: vanilla cardstock, Countryside die-cut blue Topographical, Grove paper, County Line paper, Harvest paper, Guess Your Weight paper, Barn Swallow paper, Type fabrips, Yellow fabrips, 6x6" Labels - orange, Countryside tags, Addy alpha - green, wood veneer heart, Uni-ball Signo white pen
I hope you have fun with the challenge! Remember to post your layout and link it up to this blog post by Monday, September 26 for a chance to win a SC gift card. I can't wait to see what you make.

Challenge

Sometimes when I’m crafting I get tired of following the traditional rules.  Sometimes I have a hard time with the white space on my layout, or feel there’s a lack in texture, or have a story I’m trying to tell through the products I am using, and in order to do so, I need to use products in a different way.

Titles are normally in a straight line and in a distinct place to set the stage for the photo and the moment that was captured.  But sometimes coming up with the wording is difficult, or it feels like the placement of a title will take away from the design of the rest of the layout.  It’s time like these when thinking of the title as a shape, an embellishment, is in order.

A fun thing I like to do with my titles is to curve them into circles.  To me it makes things more interesting.  It also often helps take up space in order to fit all the letters. Making a clean, pretty circle for a title is important to me.  I just like the clean look.  This is what I do in order to capture that:

Using a punch, a plate, a CD, or other embellishment as a guide, I determine the placement of my title on the layout, and place that object in the general area to see if it’ll work.  Then it’s just a matter of placing the letters around it. The key is to layer your letters perpendicular to the edge of the guide.  I usually lightly press the letters until I have them all lined out, and then adjust them as needed to better fit the circle and for a more even placement.



When you remove the guide, it’s a perfect circle, a title, and a great embellishment.

This card was made with the September kit, Glee Club. 

The challenge for you this week is to create a layout or project incorporating a circular title.  Here’s a closeup to a layout I created for the Glee Club gallery using a circle as part of my title on a layout.

As always, a gift card is up for grabs.  The shop is going to be full of delicious goodies this month, as always, so this prize is worth going for! Have a great week!  I look forward to checking out what you come up with.

Weekly Challenge

This week's challenge comes to you from our September Guest Designer, Amy Tan!

Amy wants to challenge you to use something on a scrapbook page that you normally wouldn't.  For example, her layout above uses the wrapper from her pasta.  Let's see what you come up with!

Link your layout in the comments of this post by Monday, September 12 for your chance to win a SC GC!  Have fun with this cool challenge!

Weekly Challenge

Hi everyone... it's Kelly here with your weekly challenge!

Create a rainbow: use red, orange, yellow, green, and blue on a layout.

Supplies: Glee Club Main Kit, Home Ec Add-on, Mister Huey's Orchard, Tiny Attacher

This is a page from my new Glee Club gallery.  I was inspired by the SHE tag in the Home Ec add-on and created my own tags out of the different patterned papers.  Something about a band of rainbow colors just makes me so happy.

You've got until Monday, September 5 to post your layout and link it up here for a chance to win a SC GC.  I can't wait to see all your rainbows!

Weekly Challenge

Hey Everyone - Susan today with this week's challenge!  My husband Eric and I recently celebrated our 10 year anny while in St John, USVI - same place we honeymooned.  I took so many photos and couldn't wait to come home and print them.

So my challenge to you this week is to create a layout with a vacation photo!  I created this vacation layout for my challenge, with a favorite photo that I snapped at sunset from the balcony of our hotel room.  I used some leftover parts of my Boardwalk kit, along with new products (the Memoir patterned paper, chipboard clouds, and kraft border stickers) from Studio Calico's Summer 2011 release.
Supplies: Boardwalk kit, Boogie Board Add on, Memoir patterned paper, Kraft border stickers, Chipboard Clouds


Link up your vacation layouts that you create for the challenge to this blog post, after uploading to the Studio Calico gallery.  I can't wait to see everyone's adventures!

Weekly Challenge

Hi everyone! Our four year old daughter Ayla has been super obsessed lately with drawing animals (specifically dinosaurs, her favorite) and coloring them and then cutting them out and creating stories for them. She does such a good job and of course we are always impressed with her creativity. I really wanted to get some of them in a scrapbook page, so I asked her to make me a few extra. I used those for this page, I just adhered them to the sides and built my page from that point.

She is growing up so fast and I know that all too soon she'll have moved onto boys and makeup, but at least I will always have this little slice of her four year old life on paper.
Supplies: American Crafts cardstock, Memoir Rosebud paper, Memoir Frolic paper, Memoir Scarf paper, Memoir Preserves paper, Elementary Show Your Work paper, Documentary f/stop paper, State Fair Label Stickers, Weekdays Pink rub-on,  Veneer Alphabet, Bonny Blue Mister Huey,  American Crafts rhinestone brads, misc. twine, American Crafts Precision Pen, Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

My challenge to you this week is to use your child's artwork on a page. Or, if you don't have kids, use your own. Or maybe some ephemera; tickets from a concert or a movie, a pamphlet you picked up while traveling, a letter or card you've received. Use your imagination and have fun with it!

Weekly Challenge

Hello to all my favorite crafters! Kimberly here to bring you this Sunday’s challenge.
Using bakers twine is one of my favorite embellishments, and I know many of you all share the same love for it. So, my challenge to you, since we all got some lovely Lime Twist twine in our kits this month, is to use your twine in a unique way.
 
Here is a layout I did, where I took a gluber and simply started in the center and wound it around until I completely covered the gluber. Then I used my paper piercer to punch a hole in the center to add a brad for additional embellishing fun. You can also use it to stitch and gather, like I did with the ruffle border here also.
Supplies: August kit Main;  add on 3-Tide Pool, and add on 4-Sandcastle; glubers multi-pack; Mister Huey-Piglet



The possibilities are endless. Let me see what you can do with your Bakers Twine!   Be sure to link your image here to your gallery by Monday, August 15 for your chance to win a $5 gift card with SC. Have fun! I can’t wait to see all the fun layouts with the Baker's Twine now!